Pléiades: exceptional responsiveness for your needs

 
The Pléiades satellites are designed to deliver data in record time, offering the capability to acquire very-high-resolution 50-cm products within less than 6 hours of receiving tasking requests.
 
 

The two-satellite constellation will provide a global daily revisit capability. The VHR satellites’ gyros enable them to tilt very quickly along and across track to image different areas of interest. Each satellite will be able to collect imagery anywhere within an 800-km-wide ground strip, covering 200 kilometres in 11 seconds or 800 kilometres in 25 seconds, including stabilization time. 
 
This exceptional agility makes it possible to handle diverse requests simultaneously. Pléaides will image multiple targets, collect strip mosaics up to one square degree, conduct stereo and tri-stereo viewing, and support coastal, border or corridor surveillance (of a pipeline, for example) to closely match users’ needs. 
 
 

On the operations side, latency between tasking requests and image delivery will be cut to a minimum. Work plans uploaded to the satellites three times a day from three stations around the globe—in the Kerguelen Islands, Kiruna and Toulouse—will accommodate tasking of requests up to two hours before each satellite pass. 
 
The fully automatic image production process is capable of generating a 20 km x 20 km colour image in less than 30 minutes and a single-pass mosaic of 60 km x 60 km in less than two hours. 
 
You will thus be able to access ready-to-use imagery within less than 6 hours of your tasking request, acquisition time included.